What are the biggest advances to come out of academic HCI in the past 20 years?
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Replying to @michael_nielsen
Michael asked what advances have come from HCI. I say it is HCI itself. Every major computer & software company now has an HCI group (sometimes called UX). HCI is ubiquitous: it has improved thousands of systems. You can't see it because it is everywhere-which makes it invisible.
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Replying to @jnd1er
Interesting observation. There's a 1989 joke of Alan Kay's, roughly: "Companies are finally understanding that interfaces matter, but aren't yet sure whether to order interface by the pound or by the yard." That joke doesn't work nearly so well today, which makes your point.
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Replying to @michael_nielsen @jnd1er
Also related to Grothendieck's marvellous "rising sea" metaphor for one approach to doing mathematics (from http://www.landsburg.com/grothendieck/mclarty1.pdf … )pic.twitter.com/KiN9C20I6u
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In those terms, perhaps HCI can be regarded as a sort of rising sea for computers, gradually dissolving all sorts of other problems?
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